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The Chronicle TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
2005
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
*
ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 8
DUHS sends 44 to Gulf
hospital
Steve Veres
by
THE CHRONICLE
Duke
day
Health
University
Sys-
that 44 doctors,
nurses
clinicians will be
sent to
sippi
up and
help
to
field
set
hospital
medical
to
and
Missisrun
support
battered
facility
a
Twenty-one
Tuesday
and 9 p.m. in
at noon
Von Canon B and the
East
Upper
Side, respectively. Duke Group Fitness is
holding
an
afternoon-long fitness class marathon
of the Duke cli-
departed
held
a
by
Hurricane Katrina.
nicians
will be
Open community meetings
officials announced Mon-
tem
in
a
govern-
to
raise money
11 from
Sunday, Sept.
1-5 p.m. Minimum donation is
$l.
ment-chartered jet Monday afternoon, and 23 others leave
plan
to
The group will be stationed near SHANNON
Military personnel patrol St.
STAPLETON/REUTERS
Meridian, Miss. —a
about
150 miles
be
located inside
storm
Doug Simpson
the associated press
NEW after
Hurricane
neers
that
ORLEANS
the
the
to
tion yet: As many
as
city
the
to
news
was
being
canal
pumped
back
of
canal
level
feet,
Engineers is
drawn
Station
Pumping
Bushs
Sarah Kwak
In
the
wake of Chief
U.S.
Rehnquist’s
death
William
Saturday night, law
many
theorists
are
and
wondering
about
speculating the
future of the Court.
Supreme
Rehnquist, who as
a
had
served
justice
1972 and
as
chief 19
helped
years, lead
since
for
justice
a
conserva-
tive revolution
on
With
ing,
the Court
now
President nounced
has
more
pass-
vacancies for
the
W.
Bush
was
a
ings
to
funeral
quist’s All
eyes
to
now
to
the Court.
professor
the
turned
will
Rehn-
to
Bush,
as
Chemerinsky,
Erwin
argued several
Supreme Court,
complicated
hearings
make his second nomina-
Law who has
Com-
Wednesday.
have
he prepares
He
hear-
open
after
an-
1.
July
until
delayed
who
Judiciary
the
ju-
replace Jus-
undergo
but
Tuesday, be
to
O’Connor,
before the Senate
likely
successor.
resignation
scheduled
mittee
tion
choice
Day
her
cases
said
because
in front of
the
dynamics
process
of
the
nomination for O’Connor’s one
will be
looming
position. of the
most
an-
nomination of
a
Ward
foot. In
Orleans,
merely
Judge John
Appeals
well-known conservative
Sandra
Ninth
than
wet
SEE KATRINA ON
Rehnquist’s
Bush’s
nounced was
New
were
as
completion,
Duke is to
a
sued of
SEE COURT ON PAGE
8
acting
Health,
region.
“The
extent
has
setting
hospitals
affected
clear,”
disaster
up
in the
fore, it
is
become
week’s
statement.
“Fed-
resources
effort.
rapid,
cine,
Our
by
response
and,
the doctors
Duke
the relief must
in
be
every
sent to
specialists
are
medicine,
in
internal
pediatrics,
is
Federal
Mis-
emer-
medi-
surgery,
obstetrics and
Equipment
the
to
compassionate.”
cardiology, ogy.
expertise
sustained
Among
sissippi
that
imperative
commit its
gynecol-
being provided
Emergency
Man-
agement Agency.
Monday’s of last
Duke
of the
have been overwhelmed. There-
gency
in response
which is
about 40 other
some
10
ailments.
the National Institutes
rather
PAGE
adult and
request for volunteers is-
by
a
state
at
CEO
eral and
moment,
treat most
and
president
DUHS, said in
up, clinicians will
set
to
tragedy
can
The decision may be
than 30 years.
George
Monday
two
his
tice
more
be able
city already
two
#6
of
as
Roberts, rist,
low-lying
downtown streets
of Robert’s confirmation
the Court.
the first time in
Court
Roberts
Justice
the
dropping
legacy
9
of the
floodwaters
neared
influence
to
THE CHRONICLE
down
slipping
repair
with
the
once
say
the
from
Army
Corps
into
showed
and
aircraft
national-guard
pediatric patients’
Some parts of the
plug-
gap,
State officials and the U.S.
Nominees
by
in
Monday
200-foot-wide
water out
bowl-shaped city.
Ponchar-
lake,
dead,
repeated
17th Street
Lake
an
of
will
250 beds.
begin pumping
the
predic-
Court
a
water
recede,
10,000
Sheets of metal and
ging
3,000-pound
the
along
leading
train succeeded
engi-
good
direst
mayor’s
canal
levee break
began
with
along
came
Katrina,
much of the
swamped
and floodwaters but
sandbags
A week
the
plugged
of
helicopter drops
facility
Air Field and house
post Key
Once by
the
at
hangar
10,000 feared dead after
town
northeast
Biloxi. The medical
Charles Street in New Orleans, as evacuations continue in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
cellor for health affairs and
Tuesday.
comes
on
the
announcement
heels of the
de-
painfully
Dr. Victor Dzau,
chan-
SEE DUHS
ON PAGE 8